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"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."

"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."

"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."

"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."

"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."

"I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being."
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